Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Mapping Teenage Pregnancy

The map allows users to explore conception rates between 1998 and 2012 at local authority level. The tool shows how under 18 conception rates have changed over this time period and enables
comparisons between different local authorities and between a selected local authority and the overall national
picture.

This new tool is just the latest in a series of mapped visualizations of UK data by the Office for National Statistics. In the past the ONS has released a number of Fusion Tables powered Google Maps to visualize UK economic & demographic data. Here are just a few of their UK maps:

The Income Estimates Map
is a map that allows users to view the estimated average weekly
household income for neighbourhoods throughout the UK. Users can click
on a location or use the search box to search for an address and view
the average weekly income in that area.